The Game Awards 2023: the biggest news, trailers, and announcements
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By Jay Peters, a news editor who writes about technology, video games, and virtual worlds. He’s submitted several accepted emoji proposals to the Unicode Consortium.
It’s early December, and that means it’s time for The Game Awards, the annual Geoff Keighley-hosted video game news and awards extravaganza. Yes, one title will be crowned the game of the year (personally, my pick is Tears of the Kingdom or Alan Wake 2), but we can also look forward to tons of game announcements and trailers previewing what’s next for the video game industry in 2024 and beyond.
There’s often major news at the show. In 2019, Microsoft surprise-announced the Xbox Series X. Last year, the show had reveals like Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon, the Horizon Forbidden West expansion, Hades II, and Death Stranding 2. And there’s likely to be a story or two about something unexpected, like 2022’s flute guy and the stage crasher.
The Game Awards 2023 kicks off on December 7th at 7:30PM ET, and you can watch it on YouTube, Twitch, and more.
25 minutes ago
Jay Peters
Fortunately, the show is streaming on other platforms, so it’s not the end of the world. Hopefully the website gets fixed before the event starts at 7:30PM ET.
Dec 7
Ash Parrish
Geoff Keighley’s Happy Holiday Game-a-palooza, also known as The Game Awards (but that’s less fun), kicks off Thursday, December 7th, at 7:30PM ET / 4:30PM PT. You can watch the show on just about anything that permits livestreaming events. The list of participating platforms is actually pretty impressive. There are the standards, like Twitch and YouTube. TikTok makes an appearance, along with X / Twitter (enjoy watching in 720p, though). Then there are platforms like Kick, Instagram Live, and…
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